How to Pass a College Course Without Reading the Required Materials
Instructions
Things You'll Need:
- Absolutely no required reading materials
- Notebook and pencil
- 1Please note that, while not reading is advocated, it is not recommended that you "goof off
" during class. One of the easiest ways to avoid outside-of-class reading is to pay detailed attention to the lecture and take adequate notes. That way, while you study for a midterm or final, you'll have at least something to refer to, since you never bought the books.
- 2On the morning of your reading comprehension test, make sure to ask someone in your class "OK, what was the reading about?" Don't even try to hide the fact that you didn't read a single bit of it. Chances are, they will roll their eyes and tell you in a minimum of detail what the gist of the story was. Fortunately, the gist of the story is all you need.
- 3Utilize your context clues; this is the rule to live by. If your classmate told you that the story was about redemption and finding God
, think hard when your teacher asks "What did the main character seek by going out into the wilderness?" It's not a big leap to guess that the answer is "Redemption and to find God."
- 4You can use context clues in a different way, as well. Watch the gender of pronouns to keep track of who the question is referring to, keep a watchful eye out for any hints in the text, and remember everything your teacher said. Oftentimes phrases like "You guys are going to love this part" indicate a section with a high level of violence or sex
, and comments such as "This is my favorite part" are going to indicate sections that will be asked about a lot.
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ReplyDelete- C. Montgomery Burns
This bad advice won't make much of a difference. After finding the web page, a student's first thought will be, "How can I learn what's in this article without reading it either?"
ReplyDeleteThere's such a simple solution to that BS. "Can you find the place in the book that gives evidence for your point?"
ReplyDeleteAs serious academics, we would never of course use remarkably similar tactics to avoid reading cartloads of Serious Scholarly Literature.
ReplyDelete@Merely: True, I've never met any academics who have padded bibliographies with articles and books they've never read. That's unthinkable!
ReplyDeleteThe real flaw is that the student still has to pay attention in class for this to work.
ReplyDeleteThis plan takes more effort to do than actually reading the frakken book; it's an abstract Rube Goldberg that would probably produce worse results.
ReplyDeleteAs for the writer(s), deport them to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.